Who killed Saul?

The revision of the so-called "Biblical archaeology" by the "new archaeology" brought the necessity of a new historical narrative about the early days of Israel, a narrative based on the critical exegesis, feminist readings and actual archaeology framework. Expecting to contribute in this direction, this article considers a recent suggestion that the political unity leaded by Saul would have caused sheshonq/Shishac's incursion into the lands of Israel and that this pharaoh would have killed Saul at the end of the 10th century BC. (FINKELSTEIN, 2013, p. 38-44 and 59-61; followed by KAEFER, 2014, p. 160; 2015, p. 891- 892 and 2015b, p. 41-42). This article disagrees with this proposal and presents arguments arguing that who killed Saul were the Philistines, around 20 years before Sheshonq ' s invasion.